News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Glen Stacharczyck, 53, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Glen Stacharczyck, 53, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two local physicians were indicted by a federal Grand Jury Thursday as part of Operation “Spinal Cap," which targeted a long-running health care fraud scheme that generated nearly $1 billion in fraudulent claims to the federal government, the state of California, and private insurers. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Brady Joins Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Theodore Chuang sentenced Mitchell Felix Brooks, a/k/a “Speedy," age 47, of Temple Hills, Maryland, to 129 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of a mixture of phencyclidine (“PCP").
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Thomas Lee Crow, 49, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting an unlawful animal fighting venture involving a large cockfighting enterprise, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: HOWE, Idaho - The Highway 33 Fire started July 12, 2018 at approximately 9:30 a.m. burning a total of 77 acres on BLM and INL lands. Nineteen small fires sparked along Highway 33, milepost 2 to milepost 11, from a boat trailer’s wheel dragging.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: On July 13, 2018, a federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, convicted Charles Edward Smith of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Division of the DEA, along with federal and state law enforcement officials, have launched an outreach campaign in San Diego and Imperial Counties to prevent middle and high school students from acting as drug mules for cartels. Billboards, located in San Diego and Imperial Counties as well as one in Mexico, are being unveiled featuring stark warnings to minors about the dangers and collateral consequences of drug smuggling.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three owners and/or managers of Los Angeles, California-area foreclosure rescue companies, Dorothy Matsuba, Jamie Matsuba, and Thomas Matsuba, were sentenced to 240, 135, and 168 months in prison today for their roles in a foreclosure rescue scheme, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two local physicians were indicted by a federal Grand Jury Thursday as part of Operation “Spinal Cap," which targeted a long-running health care fraud scheme that generated nearly $1 billion in fraudulent claims to the federal government, the state of California, and private insurers. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement as the comment period for the Trump Administration’s drug pricing “blueprint" comes to a close.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s June 2018 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A federal jury in Victoria has returned guilty verdicts on all counts as charged related to the 2017 burning of the local mosque.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former staffer for a member of the United States Congress was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for bribery and attempted extortion after demanding and accepting $5,000 to prevent the closure of a marijuana shop in the City of Compton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Senior United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Donna Marie Allison, 54, a resident of Springtown, Texas, to 12 months imprisonment for committing wire fraud. The judge ordered that Allison...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark Field Office arrested 37 individuals during a five-day operation that concluded Friday, as part of the agency’s ongoing public safety efforts. The operation targeted criminal aliens who were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: A former business partner of a U.S. military contractor pleaded guilty today to one count of bribery for his role in a years-long scheme to bribe U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2018
News Release: Brady Announces Full Committee Markup. Committee to Consider Bills from the Subcommittee on Health Aimed at Expanding Consumer-Directed Health Care and Lowering Premiums. July 9, 2018 - Markup - Press Releases. What: Full Committee on Ways and Means Markup. Where: 1100 Longworth House Office Building...
